National Geophysical Research Institute

Overview

The small yet significant commission also included the campus planning for the institute. The building housed India's first supercomputers.

Lead Design

Suchitra Ghosh, Sumit Ghosh

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The National Geophysical Research Institute is a constituent laboratory of the CSIR with a mission to carry out research in multidisciplinary areas of Earth Sciences. The commission required the master planning of the campus along with a Computer Centre that would house one of the first supercomputers in the country. The design of this building, perceived as a rocky outcrop, used thermal mass to create a cool internal areas that were lit through screened openings.